Category Merchant - Prepared Foods

About the role

Your merchandise planning, assortment planning, and category management experience along with your market and trend analysis experience make you a great fit for our DT Category Merchant position. Join our dynamic team today and find a rewarding career with a company that values you and all you bring to the table.

Responsibilities

• Consult on the definition of the Category Strategy for their respective Category and ensuring that this strategy aligns with the corporate strategy and meets targeted financial objectives.
• Responsible for the assortment definition and product selection for the banners, channels, countries and departments they manage, ensuring that the assortment aligns with targets.
• Responsible for identifying, developing and procuring products to drive the success and performance of their assigned banners/channels/countries/departments (i.e. their “assigned responsibilities”).
• Consulted on all financial and assortment planning activities for their assigned responsibilities. Ensure plans align with the Category Strategy and business objectives, and that buys align with assortment targets.
• Responsible for signing off on all plan-o-guides, display guides, flow guides, and planners for their assigned responsibilities prior to communication to stores.
• Responsible for collaborating with the Global Sourcing organization to manage and direct relationships and performance of those vendors that support their assigned responsibilities.
• Responsible for the selection of all products from their assigned responsibilities that are included in a promotional program. Responsible for ensuring the products are appropriately represented in a promotion.
• Conducting Weekly Business Reviews of their assigned responsibilities.
• Consulted on the Monthly P&L Performance Reviews of their assigned responsibilities.
• Identifying potential Merchandising business and systems improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in merchandise planning, assortment planning, and category management.
• Market and trend analysis experience.
• Ability to develop and execute merchandising strategies and implement merchandising plans.
• Strong collaboration skills with the Global Sourcing organization.
• Financial and assortment planning expertise.
• Leadership and mentoring experience within the Merchandising organization.

Benefits

• Health, Dental, & Vision coverage.
• A flexible spending account.
• Life and disability insurance.
• A 401(k) plan.
• PTO and paid holidays.
• An employee stock purchase plan.

Pay

Start Rate = $125,000-$160,000K based on experience plus 25% bonus and equity.

Schedule

Full time position located at 500 Volvo Parkway, Chesapeake, Virginia 23320.